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Moscow( CNN) President vladimir putin is no slouch when it is necessary to geopolitics: This week, he signed a decree suspending implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and boasted that his security authorities had impeded practically 600 foreign intelligence hustlers last year.

This week, Russian lawmakers advanced a package of new legislation aimed at abridging internet opennes. Among the laws awaiting the president’s eventual signature is a measure that would allow authorities to jail people for slandering government officials online.

Russia is not China, and the two countries still has a relatively rowdy online culture. But the proposed laws would dilate the definition of inhibited speech, announcing for a sentence of up to 15 daytimes in administrative detention for those found guilty of announcing information that indicates “disrespect for society, the country,( and) regime types of the Russian Federation, ” — including, likely, Putin himself.